Cecil Beaton : A Retrospective.
Mellor, David (editor).
Place Published: Boston, MA, U.S.A.:
Publisher: Little Brown and Co.,
Date Published: 1986.
Description: STATED FIRST EDITION. 256 pages with index. The book is in VERY GOOD condition but has a stamp on top of page edges as well as half title page. Dust jacket is NEAR FINE with only minor curling at edges. Comes with BRODART jacket cover. JMVintage specializes in books, magazines and ephemera related to the Duke and Duchess of Windsor...and other curious people like CECIL BEATON. Dust jacket reads: Cecil Beaton (19JO-1980) was one of the most distinguished and prolific photographers of the twentieth century. Beaton's talents spanned continents and media, and this fully illustrated retrospective provides a comprehensive and fascinating insight into the career of this international celebrity. Beaton's costumes and stage designs for My Fair Lady and Gigi won him international acclaim. But long before his 1950S and 1960s fame, Beaton was operating on a grand and fantastic scale, from his lavish schoolboy family portraits to his tenure as Britain's first international "media professional," when he was a portraitist of the famous, dividing his time among Paris, New York, Hollywood, and London. His move to fashion photography marked a new venture for him, but more significantly, it signaled a revolution for that genre. Never confined by anyone style, Beaton was a photographer of war, royalty, and the English society he observed with a keen, critical, and involved eye. Theater and literature, painting and caricature, film and fashion - nothing creative was beyond Beaton's reach. With its hundreds of photographs and its expert text, this book celebrates Beaton in his several glories - and in so doing, reconstructs the spirit of those periods which Beaton not only depicted but also helped to create.
Edition: First editionBinding: Hard Cover
Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj
ISBN: 0821216325
Book Id: 14580
Price: $34.50
